Untitled project expected to be released sometime in 2019

Rap music artist Meek Mill rings the ceremonial pregame bell before action between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Mill was released from prison hours before tipoff.

It was just a matter of time before someone stepped up to make the Meek
Mill docuseries we’ve all been waiting for.

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and Amazon announced on Thursday a partnership to
produce a six-part series to air in 2019. The so-far untitled project will
chronicle Mill’s timeline and exoneration through
the criminal justice system in Philadelphia and explore its shortcomings.

"I'm grateful for this unique opportunity to share my story, and I look
forward to collaborating with Amazon Prime Video, Roc Nation and the
Intellectual Property Corporation on this incredible series," Mill said.
"Not only will this documentary give viewers an unprecedented look at my
life, but it will also allow me to use my public platform to highlight the
need for criminal justice reform."

Jay-Z has produced other documentaries — including the highly anticipated
Trayvon Martin series
coming out in July — exploring the injustices of the U.S. prison system.
He’s been particularly outspoken on Mill over the years.

“What’s happening to Meek Mill is just one example of how our criminal
justice system entraps and harasses hundreds of thousands of black people
every day,” Jay-Z
penned in an Op-Ed for the New York Times
back in November 2017. “I saw this up close when I was growing up in
Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s. Instead of a second chance, probation
ends up being a land mine, with a random misstep bringing consequences
greater than the crime.”

Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams,was arrested in 2008 for a drug and gun case when he was 19. He was
sentenced to a year in jail, but was let go on early release after serving
only five months. Mill, now 30, has been on probation for the seven years.

He has routinely violated probation for things like failed drug tests,
unreported travel schedules and one incident of reckless endangerment in
New York for popping wheelies on a dirt bike without a helmet. Many of
these incidents got him arrested.

The series will also dissect Mill’s battle with Philadelphia Common Pleas
Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley, a judge who has sent other men besides Mill
to state prison for violating their probations.
A report from The Inquirer in 2017
revealed Mill’s punishment was not an outlier.

Mill was freed on April 24 after Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner admitted
Mill may have been unjustly convicted. He was granted bail after the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered his release.